Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.

All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it.

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.